We can and must ensure all children get quality education. Education is the great social equalizer and access to free, high quality schools can level the playing field for disadvantaged children.
Giving children the chance to go to school will open more and better opportunities for them in the future and provide the chance for them to escape the cycle of poverty. Educated girls, for example, tend to marry later, have healthier children, and earn higher incomes. Additionally, education has been shown to reduce the likelihood of instances of violence and unrest. Schools can also serve as critical protection for children and youth, shielding them from dangerous alternatives such as child labor, child marriage, and other terrible forms of abuse and exploitation.
References: Woolfolk, A. It was then that I knew that I wanted to be an educator. It was quickly learned that I loved school and that I wanted it to be a part of my life forever.
As I grew up, I recognized the many different types of individuals around me. I saw kids with learning disorders, physical handicaps, and exceptional abilities. His message is that the schools and parents should teach students how to develop their creativities rather than trying to seal their heads with knowledge. I agree with Kie Ho because the true education for students is to be creative and to think freely at school with the progress of the society.
To get better education, thinking and learning power comes from our hearts and minds. I want to give them the social skills and communication skills they need in order to be a competitive force. I want to help them grow and reach their full potential.
I want them to enjoy school and have fond memories of their early education years. These financial aid programs helped many people save money, but the fact of the matter is that this money could have been spent to make sure that every single person in the United States had a free college tuition, if they were to want one.
The reason as to why some people do not have any form of college education has a lot to do with the expense. Most people are told from a young age that if you want a good job that you must first have a good college education. The problem is that as of right now with a good college education comes high student loans and debt.
I would like to pass on to my students these ideas and concepts. Although they still need guidance, their interests and learning styles are well defined. I intend to make the learning process fun, challenging, and exciting. As the students leave my class, I hope to have passed on the idea that learning is beneficial. Philosophy of Education Education plays a significant role in everyone's life.
The purpose of education is to better our society as a whole. I believe education expands the minds of children and helps to give them a guideline on how to survive in the world. The number of jobs for mere high-school graduates fell by 5. Just to stay even, poorer Americans need to obtain better credentials.
But that points to another rich-poor divide in the United States. Educators call it the scholastic "achievement gap. Lower-class children are getting better educations than before. But richer kids are outpacing their gains, which in turn is stoking the widening income gap. Across the country, a Stanford University study found last year, the achievement gap between rich and poor students on standardized tests is 30 to 40 percent wider than it was a quarter-century ago.
Because excellent students are more likely to grow rich, the authors argued, income inequality risks becoming more entrenched. It's an academic arms race, and it can be seen in the sharply contrasting fortunes of Weston, a booming Boston suburb, and the blue-collar community of Gardner, where a foot-tall chair sits on Elm Street as a monument to the town's past as a furniture-manufacturing hub.
The percentage of Gardner children bound for four-year colleges has held steady at about half in the past decade, and median incomes have tumbled as furniture makers headed south or overseas. Gardner High School graduate Curtis Dorval dropped out of the University of Massachusetts this year after his father, a Walmart worker, ran short of money. He's working at a Walmart now, too, and then heading off to the military. In Weston, hedge-fund managers are tearing down modest homes to build mansions.
Per-capita incomes have leaped percent in the past two decades, and the high school is sending 96 percent of its graduates to universities. Tanner Skenderian, president of the class of , is now at Harvard; in her graduation speech, she told her classmates to "reach for the moon. This correlation between educational attainment and financial fortune is clear statewide.
They fared worse despite a sizable gain in educational attainment: The share of people 25 and older in the group with a bachelor's degree rose to The same thing happened to the middle fifth. The share of adults with a bachelor's rose to 43 percent from 29 percent. Three-quarters had a bachelor's, up from half. Fully 50 percent had a post-graduate degree, up from a quarter. Some Massachusetts officials say they fear a vicious cycle is taking hold, in which income inequality and educational inequality feed off each other.
Democrats and Republicans agree that the increased disparity is a threat to economic mobility in the state. But as in much of the rest of the United States, they disagree over what to do about it. Democrats argue the solution is more - and earlier - schooling. Republicans believe traditional public schools are part of the problem.
The education gap is just one factor behind growing inequality. The U. Long-term changes in marriage patterns matter, too, because they are stoking the educational-attainment gap that in turn feeds the income chasm. People are increasingly more likely to marry their educational equal, Sum's research finds, creating well-paid two-income couples at the top. At the bottom fifth, the number of single-parent families has risen 15 percent since Those parents have lower incomes and less time to devote to their children's schooling.
In a pattern echoed nationwide, 70 percent of Massachusetts families with children in the bottom fifth are headed by a single parent - compared with 7 percent in the top fifth. A brainier workforce alone isn't sufficient to drive growth, though. Even as education levels in the Bay State have risen lately, faster growth hasn't followed.
Between and , Sum found, Massachusetts ranked just 37th in job creation. In fact, none of the 10 states with the top students placed in the top 10 on payroll growth. He urges states to complement education with such steps as tax credits, infrastructure spending and on-the-job training.
Seventy miles northwest of Boston, Gardner once touted itself as the "chair-making capital of the world. The first workplace time-recorder was invented here, too; as a result of its adoption, "punching the clock" became part of the vernacular.
Today, the factories have gone south or closed. Gardner still calls itself the furniture capital of New England but because of its outlet stores, not its factories. The biggest employers are a hospital and a community college.
Retail jobs at Walmart and other chains have replaced better-paying factory work. A town of some 20, people, Gardner has roughly twice the population of wealthy Weston, but spends just 60 percent as much on education. The town's high school has had six principals in the past eight years. Even kids who excel at Gardner High School increasingly face financial hurdles after they graduate, say teachers and students.
Mayor Mark Hawke said cost routinely prices high-achieving students out of elite private colleges. David Dorval, 47, was laid off in after working at an area hospital registering patients for 16 years. Dorval, who has an associate's degree, struggled to find work, and he and his wife divorced. He goes to his year-old mother's house for lunch each day.
His son, Curtis Dorval, works at Walmart as well.
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